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KATHARINE TYNAN - NARRATIVES OF THE NUMINOUS - FREE E-BOOK

This year was to see my Katharine Tynan book come out - something I announced in 2019, but the original publisher fell through so I was going to bring it out as a Noose and Gibbet book this year. Sadly Covid got in the way. I have therefore decided to make this book free for all, the first published supernatural and thriller works of Katharine Tynan. There there may be the odd typo - but it is utterly free to read, so see this as an early Christmas present from me. Enjoy! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YiL5A1hGkJVysLwCizClHY3RyWBKrwhOHQfZLndRcYM/edit?usp=sharing

Remembering the Forgotten - Angus Hall

                                    Angus Hall (1932-2009) was born in Jesmond to Timber merchant Angus Henry Hall and Ann Calvert. He spent his teenage years visiting the local cinema and filling up notebooks with the films he had watched. His first job was as a reporter in the Scottish Borders at the Kelso Chronicle . He was paid £2 10s. a week, the travel to and from work costing £2 a week. He then worked for the Newcastle Evening Courier earning £7 10s. a week before his big break, working for the Mirror in Manchester. His last job was in Fleet Street, working as the film and theatre critic for the Daily Sketch . He then decided to quit journalism with an eye on Hollywood, noting that he was more intellectual and interesting than the people he was sent to interview. His first professional sale was Love i...